VKMS

[Daniel Vetter]

Actually adding mailing lists ...

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> Hi Bram,
>
> Adding mailing lists, private mails to maintainers doesn't scale.
>
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Bram Vlerick <vlerickb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> I was looking through the documentation at
>> https://01.org/linuxgraphics/gfx-docs/drm/ looking for an usefull way of
>> getting more familiar with DRM/KMS. I noticed the VKMS stuff in the TODO.
>>
>> I was wondering which functionality you had in mind that this driver would
>> expose / which helpers you had in mind. (drm_simple_kms_helpers?)
>>
>> As suggested I've already read through vgem. And used it to get an initial
>> module started. Are there any other good suggestions?
>
> There's multiple reasons for creating vkms. One would be as an example
> driver, the other would be to test/validate various bits of kms
> infrastructure in the kernel, i.e. create a hw neutral way to to
> validate the igt gpu tests we have against vkms. In short a rather
> open-ended task, you can do whatever you want to. But probably makes
> more sense to do something you find personally interesting or useful,
> otherwise it's hard to judge what makes sense (since it's such an open
> project), and it's hard to stay motivated.
>
> Cheers, Daniel
> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch



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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch